SAP EP – Netweaver Portal

Symptom
The Visual Composer, when connected to NWDI, displays the Software Components and Development Components as expected but does not display the models inside them.
The default trace shows an error containing the following exception: “com.sap.di.sdic.exception.DiRemoteServerException: Name Server not configured”.
This happens although there is a Name Server configured – the SLD either is enabled [...]

Symptom
In the Universal WorkList, one can open GP tasks that have been collected from a GP System – GP Portal set locally on current system, or remotely on another system. In order to open the task correctly, the uwl.gp.config xml file needs to be configured correctly, otherwise it can result in [...]

Symptom
After UWL patch has been successfully deployed on the portal, the changes do not take effect.
Other terms
Uwl tasks, uwl action, uwl patch, itemtype, BTM configuration, BTM tasks
Reason and Prerequisites
If the BTM configuration xml generation part of UWL was also involved in the changes, the uwl.btm.generated.xml has to be re-generated.
This configuration mainly contains the different [...]

Symptom
You can find the following error message in the default trace and it is repeated in every 5 minute:
LockConfigException: Cannot lock configuration object “config://local/com.sap.workflow/scheduler/task” without a valid user id
at com.sapportals.config.fwk.data.ConfigLockManager.lock(ConfigLockManager.java:1089)
at com.sapportals.config.fwk.data.ConfigLockManager.lock(ConfigLockManager.java:507)
at com.sapportals.config.fwk.data.Configurable.lock(Configurable.java:271)
at com.sapportals.config.fwk.data.ConfigPlugin.getAndLockConfigurable(ConfigPlugin.java:689)
at com.sap.workflow.util.config.TaskSchedulerConfiguration.setPropertyValue(TaskSchedulerConfiguration.java:100)
at com.sap.workflow.es.scheduler.TaskSchedulerDeadline.run(TaskSchedulerDeadline.java:90)
at com.sapportals.wcm.service.scheduler.SchedulerEntry.run(SchedulerEntry.java:174)
at com.sapportals.wcm.service.scheduler.crt.PoolWorker.run(PoolWorker.java:108)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:725)
Solution
The following patch for UWLJWF software component needs to be applied:
UWLJWF02P patch #607(SP-level #02) for Netweaver 7.1 SP2.PAT06

Symptom
You are facing the need to configure the supported language within the portal, mainly the available languages within the user personalization dialog (User Language), the available languages with the portal object wizards (Master Language) and the portal content translation tool (Target Language). There is the need to either restrict the availabe [...]